101.   Bank profits are likely to suffer when interest rates are higher because they have to pay their customers more for deposits.

102.   Banking companies, whose profits are highly sensitive to climbing interest rates, lost major ground for the second consecutive day.

103.   Beckman Instruments Inc. said fourth-quarter profit was unchanged as it acquired medical equipment maker Coulter Corp.

104.   Because refinery profits were so low, maintenance work was moved up by a month or two.

105.   Believing that the fat profits were in raising and processing hogs, Smithfield joined forces with three North Carolina producers to form Circle Four Farms.

106.   Because corporate profits have been strong, and given the strength of the U.S. economy, the prospects are U.S. markets will continue to attract capital, she said.

107.   Better-than-expected profits were no guarantee of a higher stock price.

108.   Big profits are nice.

109.   Big profits were on the way.

110.   Before World War I, he expressed the belief, then surprising but now conventional wisdom, that profits are what make employers hire, generating other blessings.